Department Microstructure and Residual Stress Analysis

Materials laboratory

Material preparation is essential for proper analyses. In our materials laboratories we are able to melt and cast alloys, sieve, mill, mix metal powders, sinter, extrude or roll them to compact or defined cellular materials. Furthermore, we can perform temperature heat treatments, quench them, expose them to vacuum or overpressures in different atmospheres. In our metallographic facilities we can perform further steps like cutting, grinding, aging, polishing to allow studies such as optical and electron microscopy, hardness measurement, FIB tomography, etc.